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Principles of Government

Putin’s War Is America’s Opportunity B

By Walter Russell Mead - May 29, 2023

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By Walter Russell Mead – These concerns are real and have their place, but they miss the main point. Vladimir Putin’s ill-judged, ill-planned and ill-prosecuted war has ignited a national awakening in Ukraine. The country emerging from Putin’s War will be a formidable new force in Europe whose interests and outlook place it firmly in alignment with the U.S. Read More

How Public Unions Took Taxpayers Hostage AA

By Fred Siegel - Jan. 25, 2011

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By Fred Siegel – But there was another “rights” movement, largely overlooked, that has also had a profound effect on American life. The looming public-pension crisis that threatens to bankrupt city, county and state governments had its origins in those same years when public employees, already protected by civil-service rules, gained the right to bargain collectively. Read More

‘The Gulag Archipelago’: An Epic of True Evil AA

By Gary Saul Morson - May 5, 2023

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By Gary Saul Morson – How was such evil possible? … but those who commit the greatest harm think of themselves as good. Before interrogators could torture prisoners they knew were innocent, they had to discover a justification for their actions. Shakespeare’s villains …had no ideology,” nothing to compare with Marxism-Leninism’s “scientific” and infallible explanations of life and ethics. “Ideology—that is what . . . gives the evil-doer the necessary steadfastness and determination . . . the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good . . . in his own and others’ eyes.” Read More

A New American Grand Strategy to Counter Russia and China A

By John Bolton - April 12, 2023

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By John Bolton – First, Washington and its allies must immediately increase defense budgets to Reagan-era levels relative to gross domestic product and sustain such spending for the foreseeable future. Federal budgets need substantial reductions to eliminate deficits and shrink the national debt, so higher military spending necessitates even greater reductions domestically. So be it. Neither the obese welfare state nor massive income-redistribution schemes protect us from foreign adversaries. Higher levels of economic growth, freed from crushing tax and regulatory burdens, will underlie the necessary military buildup. Read More

The Reagan Lesson for the Trumpian Right on Ukraine and China b

By Kate Bachelder Odell - May 19, 2023

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Kate Bachelder Odell – If “we’re going to ask our allies in Asia to stand fast with us on a more confrontational, assertive posture toward China, a lot of their trust in us, commitment to us, or even our credibility, will depend on how they see us acting in other parts of the world. Do they see us cut and run and abandon the Ukrainians?” Will Europe help the U.S. check China if the U.S. leaves “the festering wound of a defeated Ukraine in their backyard”? Read More